I'm heading up north again to catch me some fish. A couple weekends ago we hiked to a nearby lake and using my new rubber frogs (the kind that are hard to find, the 3 inch kind that have the yellow lightening stripe down the side). I caught a couple of mid-sized bass. Not too shabby. Towards the end however, I did have a bigger fish on, but it snapped my line, the bastard. The next day we went back to the same lake again, and again I got a nice one on the line (this time using a long tail rubber worm). My line arched and my palms ached as I tried to reel it in, keeping him with enough slack so he wouldn't jump and spit, FINALLY I pulled him into the boat. A nice 3 1/2 pounder I decided to keep. But there was something strange about this fish, it had two additional long pieces of line hanging out of it's mouth. It had escaped many a fisherperson before! As I unhooked my pink worm I stared down into the esophagus of the beast-- contracting and expanding with it's last breaths-- when I saw something even stranger. "No. Way." I thought. But later, when I removed the head of my fish and emptied it's stomach onto the dock, my beliefs were confirmed. A rubber frog. 3 inches. With a yellow lightening stripe down the side. The kind that are hard to find in stores.
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